Experiments with Edamame

My new favorite meal to skip, or at least skimp on, is dinner. I've started eating my breakfast religiously, and then eating a lot less for dinner. This is helped by the fact that certain people with particularly fond attachments to "dinner" are living in Korea, and I can't figure out how this will work when he gets back. But we'll worry about that then.

For now, my favorite thing for dinner is just a plate of edamame. I like to sprinkle this Osaka Salt on it that I got in the market. The Osaka salt has some flakes of seaweed and sesame seeds in it too, so it's yummy.

And I experimented a little bit. Here's what I know:

-Do not boil the shit out of edamame because they disintegrate in weird ways instead of you being able to pull the beans out with your teeth. This is embarassing when company comes over.

-Already salted Edamame = Yuck! i have my own salt.

-Edamame that comes already shelled (just the bean) tastes strangely like grass. I can't reconcile why this is. Regular edamame in the husk doesn't taste like grass. Maybe it's because you can only put 2 or 3 beans in your mouth at one time so the grassiness doesn't build up to the point of being detectable. Anyway, it turns out that just plain edamame beans don't cut it.

-Following dtg's advice and only keeping the edamame in the water long enough to defrost them is just about right. Plus another 30 seconds or so.

Now I'm hungry.

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